Influential Authors

There are five authors the complete works of whom I imagine someday filling my library. They have either inspired or challenged my philosophy over the years. I may write more about each, or I may just refer to them from time to time.

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)—Synergetics—"For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful."
B. F. Skinner (1904–1990)—Behaviorism—"The major problems of the world today can be solved only if we improve our understanding of human behavior."
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921)—Anarchism—"There is an immense amount of warfare and extermination going on amidst various species; there is, at the same time, as much, or perhaps even more, of mutual support, mutual aid, and mutual defense.... Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle."
Ayn Rand (1905–1982)—Objectivism—"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
Gilbert Chesterton (1874–1936)—Distributism—"To give nearly everybody ordinary houses would please nearly everybody; that is what I assert without apology." §